India category: 2353 books
Chandni Chowk
The Mughal City of Old Delhi
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
What we know today as Chandni Chowk was once a part of one of the greatest cities of the world—the imperial city established by the Mughal emperor Shahjahan in the seventeenth century, and named after him—Shahjahanabad. This is the story of how the city came to be established, its grandeur as...
Following Fish
One Man's Journey into the Food and Culture of the Indian Coast
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
In India's long and diverse coastline, fish inhabit the heart of many aspects of life: food of course, and also culture, commerce, sports, history, and society. Journeying along the edges of the peninsula, Samanth Subramanian delivers a kaleidoscope of extraordinary stories.
Following Fish...
by Janet Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Every year we all take a trip - a trip around the sun. But one year I decided to go a little bit farther. This is book one of a four-and-a-half-year adventure that let me see the world. Let me take you with me. Come with me to India and see the burning ghats, meet a fortune teller in Agra, take a...
by Chris Lancaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
A monks perspective on his trip to India. An interesting read for those spiritually inclinced.
Sri Lanka - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2019
Known as the pearl of the Indian Ocean, this resource-rich, lovely island just off the southern tip of India is full of contrast and diversity. Despite the lingering tension between the different religious and ethnic groups in the wake of a bloody civil war, and the glaring inequality between the...
Bombay Islam
The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840–1915
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green's Bombay Islam traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism and the production of religion to show how Muslim migration fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers, as...
Between Love and Freedom
The Revolutionary in the Hindi Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Between Love and Freedom interprets the figure of the revolutionary in the Hindi novel by establishing its lineage in representative Bengali novels, as well as in the contending moralities of Mahatma Gandhi and Bhagat Singh on the idea of violence. It reveals how conventional social realism and emergent...
by Julie E. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Animal Kingdoms reveals the far-reaching cultural, political, and environmental importance of hunting in colonial India. Julie E. Hughes explores how Indian princes relied on their prowess as hunters of prized game to advance personal status, solidify power, and establish links with the historic battlefields and legendary deeds of their ancestors.
A Time for Tea
Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001
In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements—picturesque women...
Madeleine's Children
Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Madeleine's Children uncovers a multigenerational saga of an enslaved family in India and two islands, Réunion and Mauritius, in the eastern empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A tale of legal intrigue, it reveals the lives and secret relationships between...
by Professor Stanley Lane-Poole
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This is the tale of the last of the great Mughal Emperors of India, Aurangzib or the “world-seizer”, his life is traced by expert historian Professor Lane-Poole though the blood, battles and intrigue of his vast wars, rapid expansion, religious piety and fatal over-extension.
“The greatest of...
by Jadunath Sarkar
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This book is an abridged version of the unrivalled five-volume History of Aurangzib by Sir Jadunath Sarkar. It contains one half of the material of the original work. Yet, the author, who himself shortened it, has not compromised on the essential aspects of this history practically the history of India...
by Srinivasa Prasad Pillutla
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
In this book Pandavas are cheated by Kauravas in a game of dice and take all their wealth and banish them to forest for 14 years.I have recorded my study of Mahabharata second chapter Sabhaparva in this ebook.Mahabharata is history of India, an epic war that ended one era and ushered in the current...
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate
Covert Action and Internal Operations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book is the first comprehensive study of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI).
The rise of Pakistan-backed religious extremist groups in Afghanistan, India, and Central Asia has focused international attention on Pakistan’s premier intelligence organization and...